Category The Ends of the Earth

Folks don’t usually think of mountains when they think of Oklahoma, but most of us Okies know better!  A Tribute to my Dad For as long as I can remember, our yearly schedule was punctuated with hiking trips to “the…

Not much has changed since I originally wrote and posted this short article almost 9 years ago… After spending my first 3 years as a Christian in the States involved in tons of personal evangelism and now after having spent…

So I have had trouble getting back into a “normal” sleep schedule these past few nights, after spending 15 in a row out on the moon-lit streets with my wonderful team of praying, singing, hiking, climbing, *crumbers. Night after night…

After months of visiting family, friends, and churches in the USA, and winter mission trips to both Peru and China, we are finally resettling into our home in the foothills of northwest China! We humbly thank all of you who…

As if we weren’t hosting enough teams already this year (11, if I am counting correctly, see below for some highlights of our most recent teams), I just stumbled across some amazing airfares from the US to China for this…

Our last update ended with us preparing to leave on about a week long mission trip “farther up and farther in” to the Tibetan Plateau southwest of us to try and locate the unreached and most likely unengaged Sogwo Arig…

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”   Just for a moment, try to imagine thousands of small villages, scattered throughout valleys, covering hillsides, and dotting ridgetops for as far as you can see every direction. Some are full…

Someone once wrote to me sharing the following concern: “I’m amazed at how you’ve gotten away with having a blog about being a missionary in China! Your cover is pretty thin.” I think this was supposed to be a warning…

So much has been going on with us. This has been the busiest 6 months of my life. There has just been no way to complete all the tasks and projects that have been on our plate (my fault for…